about what you were saying about hosting a third party. hmm, let me
know if i am wrong, but isn't Shindig exactly for that? for hosting
open social in a third party platform?

Please give me some lights around this, because I surely believed that
I could do that with Shindig - having an open social app hosted in my
own server

On Oct 2, 7:51 pm, Matt Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well lets think about this...
>
> > I'm planning on developing my own website that will have a mashup with
> > all the OpenSocial Partners (Hi5, Orkuy, ... ) I would like to show
> > the user some notifications, his profile, friends and some other basic
> > information for each social network.
>
> First problem I can see is a user that has only a myspace account or
> an orkut account.  How are you going to show a profile for each when
> they don't exist?
> Second issue is the idea of open social being hosted by a third party
> non-open social platform.  OpenSocial is a universal API to retrieve
> information about any given account.  My understanding of this is that
> you can create web based client applications "gadgets" that will work
> inside the containing platform (hi5, orkut).  I very well could be
> wrong about this but it seems hard to believe that they would allow
> access such that a third party site could syndicate the user's
> profile, thus averting the user from said platform's advertisements
> and chief revenue source.
>
> On Oct 1, 1:16 pm, Joana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi!
>
> > I was wondering if you could help me here!
> > I'm planning on developing my own website that will have a mashup with
> > all the OpenSocial Partners (Hi5, Orkuy, ... ) I would like to show
> > the user some notifications, his profile, friends and some other basic
> > information for each social network.
> > I was thinking of implementing this with OpenSocial API and Shindig on
> > the server side. Can this be done like this?
>
> > Thanks a lot for your feedback in advance! I apreciate:)
>
> > Cheers,
> > Joana
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